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How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
This guidance sets out the statutory general binding rules which will…
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal…
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily discharge water intended for drinking water supply to surface waters from water treatment works and water supply assets.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on unpermitted discharges from water and sewerage company (WaSC) sewerage networks due to groundwater infiltration into sewers.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Appeal to the Environment Agency if you have been refused connection to the public sewer.
Formerly part of M18, index of alternative monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to event duration monitors.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
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